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Promotional Materials AGRICULTURAL LITERACY BROCHURES The newly revised brochure promotes agricultural literacy efforts including Ag in the Classroom. The brochure answers a series of questions who, what, when, where, and why of educating children about agriculture. The first paragraph under the why category states: Education is a long-term solution to public policy and consumer issues. $14.00 per packet of 100. Price: $14.00 Item #AE-BR07-001-100 Quantity: 0 Subtotal: $0.00 FARM FACTS PENCILS - 10 SAYINGS, ASSORTED COLORS Each box of 140 pencils in assorted colors have been updated with 2007 Farm Facts figures. Ten different farm facts are included in each box. Price: $22.00 Item #AE-PN07-001-140 Quantity: 0 Subtotal: $0.00 STICKERS - I MET A FARMER TODAY! I met a farmer today! Roll of 500. Price: $9.00 Item #AE-FS06-002-500 Quantity: 0 Subtotal: $0.00 STICKERS - I MET A RANCHER TODAY! I met a rancher today! Roll of 500. Price: $9.00 Item #AE- RS06- 001-500 Quantity: 0 Subtotal: $0.00 STICKERS - I LIKE VEGETABLES! I like vegetables stickers have been created for use with the 2008 Accurate Ag Books lesson – Farmer’s Market. They can be used for any educational event as are the other two stickers now available. Available in rolls of 500 stickers the orange and green stickers come on a perforated roll. Price: $9.50 Item #AE-STVEG08-001-500 Quantity: 0 Subtotal: $0.00 SELF-ADHESIVE BOOKPLATE Intended for use with the “Accurate Ag Books Program,” each book plate reads: This book was donated by America’s Farmers and Ranchers, members of your local Farm Bureau. Space is available on the book plate to identify the county or state Farm Bureau. Set of 100. Price: $6.00 Item #AE-BP06-001-100 Quantity: 0 Subtotal: $0.00 ACCURATE AG BOOKS ACCURATE AG BOOKS PRE-K - K: SEEDS AND TRACTORS This 12-page instructor guide has been developed for pre-school and Kindergarten audiences. The first in the series, these activities are designed to accompany books on seeds and tractors. The seed activity is the garden-in-a-glove activity, a hands-on seed planting activity. The tractor activity is a physical exercise activity designed to get children moving and engaged in a farmers daily animal feeding routine. Included is an important safety message abouot not riding double on any equipment. These two activities are suitable for ages 3 1/2 through 5. 1 : $2.00 2 to 99 : $1.90 100 or more : $1.75 Item #AE-AAB07-001-001 Quantity: 0 Subtotal: $0.00 ACCURATE AG BOOKS PRE-K - K: FARMERS MARKET This 28-page instructor guide has been developed for pre-school and Kindergarten audiences. Second in the series, these activities are designed to accompany books on farmers’ markets. Four activities make up this teacher’s guide. The activities are reading the book; “I like vegetables!”, a physical exercise activity designed to get children moving and engaged in the daily routine of a farm market farmer/manager, and a simple matching activity that simulates pricing and buying fruits and vegetables. These activities and recommended book are suitable for ages 4 through 5. Books are not included with the teacher’s guide. 0 to 1 : $2.50 2 to 99 : $2.25 100 or more : $2.00 Item #AE—AAB08—001—001 Quantity: 0 Subtotal: $0.00 ACCURATE AG BOOKS - BOOK OF THE YEAR: THE TREE FARMER This 12-page instructor’s guide has been adapted for use with the American Farm Bureau Foundation for Agriculture’s® first book of the year —The Tree Farmer. It is designed for students in grades three through five. Adapted with permission from Project Food, Land & People’s lesson of the same name, this lesson uses only the categorizing activity and game. Simplified for a slightly younger audience, the tree-mendous activity includes new categories suitable for younger audiences. The activities are reading the book, categorizing trees, tree products, and tree benefits and the tree-mendous game. Books are not included with the teacher’s guide. 0 to 1 : $2.25 2 to 99 : $2.00 100 or more : $1.95 Item #AE—AAB08—002—001 Quantity: 0 Subtotal: $0.00 ADDRESSING MISCONCEPTIONS ADDRESSING EARLY MISCONCEPTIONS The newest effort in the Foundation’s work to ensure accurate understandings about agriculture begins early in life. This kit tackles five basic questions that are most often misunderstood by children and the adults they live with. “Who makes chocolate milk?” “Find the bull.” “Who is the farmer or rancher?” “ Which of these does a farmer own and use?” (all high-tech products) and “Which of these statements is true?” (In pictures, it depicts a hen plus a rooster equals a chick and a hen plus a rooster equals a egg.) The kit includes a teacher’s guide and will be available in two formats: DO-IT-YOURSELF A do-it-yourself version will be a teacher’s guide that will have photos and signage on a CD- ROM. This will require photos and signs be printed out in color and laminated for use prior to assembly with Velcro on a suitable board or wall. The teacher’s guide will provide directions. Price: $10.00 Item #AE—EMTG08—001—001 Quantity: 0 Subtotal: $0.00 ADDRESSING MISCONCEPTIONS ABOUT AGRICULTURE - INSTRUCTORS KIT WITH CD ROM Have you always known that many of the derogatory claims made against modern agricultural practices are not sound? Are you ready to challenge many of the misconceptions people hold about agriculture, but have not had the time to research the issues yourself? This instruction kit will help you do just that with sound, science-based factual information. We’ve done the research for you. The kit’s 35 issues cover topics from DDT to global food issues and nutrition to animal production. The kit comes complete with an 11- page lesson plan, background information on each issue, three sets of student cards, and a CD ROM containing two PowerPoint presentations. The well-researched issues are supported with five pages of references. References listed are easily available to any audience member or student ready to challenge the presentations. The kit is designed for classroom use at the high school and college level. Demand for this presentation has led us to also create an 18-issue speech version that can be presented in a half hour to 45 minutes. Both versions are included in the kit. 1 : $15.00 2 to 24 : $13.50 25 to 99 : $12.50 100 or more : $10.00 Item #AE – MIK06 – 002 - 001 Quantity: 0 Subtotal: $0.00 AGRICULTURE AND THE ENVIRONMENT AGRICULTURE & THE ENVIRONMENT-TEACHERS GUIDE This guidebook provides information and lesson activities that teachers can use to incorporate topics on agriculture and the environment into curricula for grades 6 through 9. The six chapters focus on issues, food safety, pesticides and pest management, water quality, wetlands, and endangered species. Each chapter has a classroom activity and resources for further exploration. Two of the activities were designed by students. This edition is a rewrite of the 1999 edition written by an award-winning teacher. 1 to 49 : $4.50 50 or more : $4.00 Item #AE-TG04-001-001 Quantity: 0 Subtotal: $0.00 CLEAN WATER TEAM An educational comic book for Grades 4-6 focusing on watersheds and agricultures contribution to watershed management. This 16-page book is a great resource for events or any occasion that calls for a colorful, reasonably priced way of educating children about agriculture. Price: $0.35 Item #AE-CB00-001-001 Quantity: 0 Subtotal: $0.00 TEACHERS GUIDE - CLEAN WATER TEAM This guide is designed for students in Grades 4-6 to accompany the Clean Water Team comic book. The teachers guide includes classroom activities as well as field activities. Students can visit a farm or do the activities in their schoolyard to learn about the impact of soil compaction and other factors that influence the quality of the soil. Price: $2.00 Item #AE-TG00-002-001 Quantity: 0 Subtotal: $0.00 AGRICULTURAL MAGAZINES AG MAG – AN AGRICULTURAL MAGAZINE FOR KIDS Designed for students in grades 4-6, each Ag Mag is a visually stimulating, four-color tabloid agricultural themed newspaper. Each Ag Mag contains short newspaper articles, puzzles, games, photographs, fun-facts, a career section, letter from Eddie and agricultural trivia. Ag Mags are available from the Foundation in shrink-wrapped classroom sets of 30 for $5.00 per set. Please specify on the order form your choice of themes listed below: Beef Ag Mag, Set of 30 The newest of the Ag Mags was produced with support from the Beef Check off and the nations cattlemen. Included are nutrition topics such as Todays Beef has Less Fat, The Nutritional Advantage of Beef, food handling safety, production information about branding, why cattle can eat grass, the career section and beef by-products. Each packet of Beef Ag Mags includes an activity guide and evaluation form. Price: $5.00 Item #AE-TA04-001-030 Quantity: 0 Subtotal: $0.00 Beef Ag Mag Teachers Guide This 25-page teachers guide is meant to accompany the Beef Ag Mag. The guide contains three units of instruction titled, Nutrition and Food Safety, Cattle Production and The Environment, Economic Importance of Beef. The units address all sections of the ag mag with an activity and cover topics such as Your Nutritional Needs, Nutrition and Fat Content, Meeting Your Nutritional Requirements, Cattle and The Environment, Land That Can Produce Food, Leather Sports Equipment, Beef Is Important, 1 to 49 : $4.00 50 or more : $3.00 Item #AE-TG05-001-001 Quantity: 0 Subtotal: $0.00 Biotechnology Ag Mag, Set of 30 Included are topics defining biotechnology, how it works and its interaction with the environment and farming, articles also describe how DNA and genes work within the cell and how scientists are able to manipulate them. Insights into future benefits in health and nutrition bookend the career section, which highlights scientists and public outreach specialists that are involved in this field are also included. Set of 30 is $5.00 Price: $5.00 Item #AE-TA04-002-030 Quantity: 0 Subtotal: $0.00 Career Ag Mag, Set of 30 Among the wide variety of careers explored in the areas of agriculture are farmer, veterinarian, nutritionist/dietician, marine and food scientists, ecologists, florists, and animal behaviorists. Interviews with an agricultural lawyer, zookeeper, broadcaster, chef and conservation police officer are covered in the career section. Data references that agriculture is the nations largest employer and its importance to the economy. Price: $5.00 Item #AE-TA04-003-030 Quantity: 0 Subtotal: $0.00 Dairy Ag Mag, Set of 30 Features dairy products, nutrition found in dairy products, dairy processing, homogenization, pasteurization and dairy breeds dairy trivia. The career corner features a producer, a dairy plant manager and dairy scientists. Students and teachers can learn more about milk and dairy products by searching the Internet. Price: $5.00 Item #AE-TA04-004-030 Quantity: 0 Subtotal: $0.00 Pizza Ag Mag, Set of 30 This Ag Mag details the components and origins in every pizza. There are separate articles on cheeses, sauce, onions, crust, pepperoni and other meat toppings. Recipes and experiments make this a very hands-on Ag Mag. The career corner portrays a cheese maker, wheat producer and vegetable farmers. Price: $5.00 Item #AE-TA04-005-030 Quantity: 0 Subtotal: $0.00 BIOTECHNOLOGY BRINGING BIOTECHNOLOGY TO LIFE VIDEO This 20-minute video for students in grades 7-12 explores biotechnology through the eyes of Julian as he creates a PowerPoint presentation for science class. When a frustrated Julian contacts his on-line friend Cora for help she enlists her uncle Vince, a farmer familiar with biotechnology. During an instant on-line message Uncle Vince refers Julian to scientists with expertise in food science, genomics, plant genetics, and crop molecular biology. Using their leads, Julian assembles video clips about biotechnology for his report. The fast paced video explores an array of biotechnologies being developed for use in medicine, fuel production, nutrition, and feeding a hungry planet. The video provides a comprehensive overview to introduce the topic of biotechnology. Click here to prieview the video. 1 : $18.50 2 to 99 : $15.00 100 or more : $12.50 Item #AE-VS03-002-001 Quantity: 0 Subtotal: $0.00 BRINGING BIOTECHNOLOGY TO LIFE DVD This 20-minute DVD for students in grades 7-12 explores biotechnology through the eyes of Julian as he creates a PowerPoint presentation for science class. When a frustrated Julian contacts his on-line friend Cora for help she enlists her uncle Vince, a farmer familiar with biotechnology. During an instant on-line message Uncle Vince refers Julian to scientists with expertise in food science, genomics, plant genetics, and crop molecular biology. Using their leads, Julian assembles video clips about biotechnology for his report. The fast paced DVD explores an array of biotechnologies being developed for use in medicine, fuel production, nutrition, and feeding a hungry planet. The DVD provides a comprehensive overview to introduce the topic of biotechnology. Each major topic is presented as a chapter and can be selected and shown or the total DVD can ve viewed 1 : $17.00 2 to 99 : $14.00 100 or more : $12.00 Item #AE-DVD03-001-001 Quantity: 0 Subtotal: $0.00 BRINGING BIOTECHNOLOGY TO LIFE TEACHERS GUIDE The 50-page teachers guide includes three separate lessons intended to be used before, during, and after the videotape. Intended to be used as a total teaching package, with the video listed above, for introducing and understanding the basics of biotechnology, the lesson includes 6 hands-on, minds-on activities to engage middle school students. The activity titles include It Is Nothing New, Introduction to Biotechnology and Genetic Engineering, Timeline of Biotechnology, Find Your Own DNA!, Gel Electrophoresis, The Issue of Labeling and Food Safety. Consider using this resource to enhance the Breakthroughs in Biotechnology speakers kit and as another resource when speaking anyone whenever issues about biotechnology arise. It would also make a great resource for students preparing for debates or public speaking competitions. 1 to 49 : $5.00 50 or more : $4.00 Item #AE-TG05-002-001 Quantity: 0 Subtotal: $0.00 FARM CITY COUNCIL SLICE (Student Lessons in Consumer Education) Classroom kit for K-6 students produced by the National Farm-City Council. Packet includes Teachers Guide, reproducible activity sheets and bulletin board materials to teach students about production, processing, distribution and marketing of food products from the farm to our homes. Price: $8.00 Item #FC-KT00-001-001 Quantity: 0 Subtotal: $0.00 FARM FACTS FARM FACTS BOOKLET Farm Facts is a colorful 29-page booklet with realistic illustrations of farmers, consumers, livestock and crops. It features charts and graphs with facts about todays agricultural system, food consumption and safety, biotechnology, international trade, historical highlights, and agricultural terminology. New sections on aquaculture, silviculture, nursery and greenhouse, and the farmers’ share of the retail food dollar are included. A one-sided poster map (38 x 27) is included with each booklet. Quantities of 100 or more are available in boxes of 100 for $225 ($2.25 per booklet). Price: $4.25 Item #PR-FFBK07-001-001 Quantity: 0 Subtotal: $0.00 FARM FACTS BOOKLET - Boxes of 100 Price: $225.00 Item #PR-FFBK07-001-100 Quantity: 0 Subtotal: $0.00 FARM FACTS POCKET GUIDE The Farm Facts Pocket Guide is mini-version of the Farm Facts booklet small enough to fit in a shirt or pants pocket, yet features key information, graphics and color illustrations. Topics include: What We Pay for Food, Farm Ownership, Farm Production, U.S. Farmers Feed the World, Farmers Reduce Soil Erosion, and Renewable Fuels (condensed from pages 1, 6, 7, 10 and 26 of the full-size booklet. Use as educational give-aways to the non-farming public at farm tours, county/state fairs, harvest festivals and theme weeks (Food Check-Out, National Agriculture, Farm-City, etc.). Available only in bundles of 100. Price: $8.00 Item #PR-FFCARD07-001-100 Quantity: 0 Subtotal: $0.00 FARM FACTS POSTER KIT Includes five folded posters (18 inches x 24 inches) on heavy, gloss paper, suitable for classroom use or displays at fairs, career shows, farm tours and other events. One-sided posters correspond to pages from the 2007 Farm Facts book -- Who pays the least for food? (page 1); Do we still have family farms? (page 7); What is USDA’s budget? (page 12); How are you connected to agriculture? (page 23); and How will we fuel America? (page 26). Use one poster at a time in your display or all five, the choice is yours. Posters are folded and shrink-wrapped into a five poster set. Posters are not available individually. Price: $10.00 Item #AE- FFP07-001-005 Quantity: 0 Subtotal: $0.00 FARM FACTS AMERICA THE BOUNTIFUL POSTER MAP Order extra copies of the America the Bountiful map poster included with the Farm Facts booklet. The Educating About Agriculture poster features colorful, realistic illustrations of farm products and livestock. The 38 x 27-inch map poster is one-sided and shows where various agricultural commodities are produced, including the commodity belts (corn, cotton, soybeans, rice, etc.). Includes charts of the Top 15 Commodities and the Top Producing States and a state-by-state listing of Total Agricultural Cash Receipts. Price: $2.50 Item #PRFFPSTR-001-001 Quantity: 0 Subtotal: $0.00 FARMS AND FARMING TEN THINGS KIDS WANT TO KNOW ABOUT FARMING A 22-minute educational videotape for Grades 3-6 takes students on a series of field trips to farm and ranch locations throughout the United States, offering them a firsthand view of what happens to produce the food and clothing we use everyday. 1 : $18.50 2 to 99 : $15.00 100 or more : $12.50 Item #AE-VS01-001-001 Quantity: 0 Subtotal: $0.00 TEN THINGS KIDS WANT TO KNOW ABOUT FARMING A 22-minute educational DVD for grades 3-6 takes students on a series of field trips to farm and ranch locations throughout the United States, offering them a firsthand view of what happens to produce the food and clothing we use every day. 1 : $17.00 2 to 99 : $14.00 100 or more : $12.00 Item #AE-DVD06-001-001 Quantity: 0 Subtotal: $0.00 TEN THINGS KIDS WANT TO KNOW ABOUT FARMING LESSON PLANS The Ten Things Kids Want to Know About Farming lesson plans help teachers expand upon ideas presented in the video through classroom and field activities. The 10 lesson plans offer creative ways of teaching fundamental concepts in math, science, history, social science, geography, language arts, and visual arts. They were developed in consultation with teachers. 1 : $5.00 2 to 99 : $3.00 100 or more : $1.50 Item #AE-TG02-001-001 Quantity: 0 Subtotal: $0.00 SHIPPING AND HANDLING Note: Orders $200.00 and over will be billed actual shipping and handling charges. $200 or more : Actual shipping charges $150 to $199.99 : $15.98 $120 to $149.99 : $13.48 $100 to $119.99 : $12.48 $80 to $99.99 : $11.98 $70 to $79.99 : $10.98 $60 to $69.99 : $9.48 $50 to $59.99 : $8.98 $40 to $49.99 : $7.48 $30 to $39.99 : $6.48 $20 to $29.99 : $5.48 $10 to $19.99 : $4.48 $0.01 to $9.99 : $3.48 Item #shipping Subtotal: $0.00

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These educational resource materials are made available by the American Farm Bureau Foundation for Agriculture, a 501(c)(3) affiliate of the American Farm Bureau Federation. The Foundation was established in 1967 to initiate and finance agricultural research and education. As part of the Foundation's mission to educate the public about our food and fiber system, classroom materials are developed and made available at reasonable cost for use in programs such as Ag in the Classroom. Thank you for ordering from us.